Extend your carbon footprint beyond the fence line — capturing supply-chain, travel, and waste emissions across all 15 GHG Protocol categories.
For most organisations, Scope 3 emissions account for 70-90% of the total carbon footprint. Yet these upstream and downstream impacts are the hardest to measure: data sits with suppliers, logistics partners, and employees. Without a structured approach, teams either ignore Scope 3 entirely or produce estimates so rough they add little strategic value.
Supplier-specific emission data is rarely available, forcing reliance on spend-based proxies with wide uncertainty margins.
The GHG Protocol defines 15 Scope 3 categories, each with different data requirements and calculation methods.
Teams waste effort collecting data for categories that contribute negligible emissions while overlooking material hotspots.
Requesting emissions data from hundreds of suppliers requires a structured, repeatable process.
Purpose-built capabilities — not generic templates you have to work around.
Pre-configured templates for every GHG Protocol Scope 3 category — from purchased goods to end-of-life treatment.
Combine spend-based, activity-based, and supplier-specific data within a single category for progressive improvement.
Send structured questionnaires to suppliers and import their responses directly into your Scope 3 dataset.
Run a rapid screening across all 15 categories to identify hotspots and focus detailed data collection where it matters most.
Score each category by data quality (1-5 scale per GHG Protocol guidance) to track improvement year on year.
Perform a rapid materiality assessment to identify which Scope 3 categories are significant for your organisation.
Use spend-based estimates for low-materiality categories and targeted data requests for hotspot categories.
Apply the appropriate emission factors, calculate tCO₂e, and assign a data-quality score to each category.
Publish Scope 3 results alongside a data-quality improvement plan for progressive refinement.
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The GHG Protocol requires you to report all categories that are relevant (material) to your organisation. SwiftCase's materiality screening identifies which categories are significant so you can justify any exclusions.
Spend-based estimates are a valid starting point under the GHG Protocol. SwiftCase supports a hybrid approach — start with spend data and progressively replace it with activity-based or supplier-specific figures over time.
Each category is scored on a 1-5 data-quality scale. The improvement plan identifies which categories to upgrade from spend-based to activity-based methods, and which suppliers to engage for primary data.
Yes. Suppliers receive a structured questionnaire via email and submit their responses through a simple online form — no licence required.
See how SwiftCase helps you screen, collect, and calculate Scope 3 emissions across all 15 GHG Protocol categories.
